This project explores, using mathematical models of onchocerciasis transmission and control:

the feasibility of reaching the goals set by the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) roadmap on NTDs in the proposed 2020 timeframe with the current strategy of annual distribution of ivermectin, and

what other strategies, interventions or combinations thereof would be necessary to achieve such goals in those settings where the current strategy is deemed insufficient.